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| Born | John William Weller (1958-05-25)25 May 1958 (age 67) Woking, England |
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| Years active | 1972 (1972)–present |
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John William Weller (born 25 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame in the late 1970s as the guitarist and principal singer and songwriter of the rock bandthe Jam, alongsideBruce Foxton andRick Buckler. The band gained significant critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom, and were the most influential band of themod revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s.[1] Following the dissolution of the Jam at the end of 1982, Weller formedthe Style Council withMick Talbot, where he explored a wide variety of other musical styles, including pop, jazz, soul, hip hop, folk and classical. Although initially successful, the band's popularity declined in the late 1980s, leading them to break up in 1989. Weller began a solo career in the early 1990s, slowly re-establishing his commercial standing across his first four solo albums,Paul Weller (1992),Wild Wood (1993),Stanley Road (1995) andHeavy Soul (1997).
Although Weller has received international critical recognition as a singer, lyricist and guitarist, he is most famous in his native country, as his songwriting is rooted inEnglish society. Many of his songs with the Jam had lyrics aboutworking class life.[2] He was the principal figure of the 1970s and 1980s mod revival, often referred to asthe Modfather,[3][4] and an influence on many subsequent Britishalternative rock andBritpop artists, such asOasis.[5] He has received fourBrit Awards, including Best British Male three times, and the2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
Weller was born on 25 May 1958 inWoking,Surrey, to John and Ann Weller (née Craddock). Although born John William Weller, he became known as Paul by his parents.[6]
Weller's father worked as a taxi driver and a builder and his mother was a part-time cleaner.[7] He started his education at Maybury County First School.[8] His love of music began withthe Beatles, thenthe Who and theSmall Faces.[8] When Weller was eleven he moved up toSheerwater County Secondary school and had started playing the guitar.[8]
Weller's musical vocation was confirmed after seeingStatus Quo in concert in 1972.[9]He formed the first incarnation of the Jam, playing bass guitar with his school friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar), Dave Waller (rhythm guitar) and Neil Harris (drums), playing sets at school and their localyouth club.[10] When Harris and then Waller left the band, two more school friends replaced them:Rick Buckler on drums andBruce Foxton on rhythm guitar.[10][11] Weller's father, acting as theirmanager, began booking the four-piece into localworking men's clubs,[12] and the band began to forge a local reputation, playing a mixture ofcovers and songs written by Weller and Brookes.[10] After Brookes left the band in 1976, Weller and Foxton decided to swap guitar roles, with Weller now the guitarist.[11]
Weller became interested in 1960smod subculture in late 1974, particularly after hearing "My Generation" by the Who. As a result, he began riding aLambretta scooter, styling his hair likeSteve Marriott and immersing himself in 1960ssoul andR&B music. At his instigation,the Jam began wearing mohair suits onstage and he and Foxton began playingRickenbacker guitars (as favoured by the Who and the Beatles in the mid-1960s). He has been a committed mod ever since, declaring in a 1991 interview that, "I'll always be a mod. You can bury me a mod".[13]
The Jam emerged at the same time aspunk rock bands such asthe Clash,the Damned, and theSex Pistols. The Clash were early advocates of the band, and added them as the support on their White Riot tour in May 1977.
The Jam's first single, "In the City", took them into theUK Top 40 in May 1977.[14] In 1979, the group released "The Eton Rifles" and first broke into theTop 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November.[15] The increasing popularity of their blend of Weller's barbed lyrics with pop melodies eventually led to their firstnumber one single, "Going Underground", in March 1980.[16]
The Jam became the first band since the Beatles to perform both sides of the same single ("Town Called Malice" and "Precious") on one edition ofTop of the Pops.[17] They also had two singles, "That's Entertainment" (1981) and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" (1982), reach No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in theUK singles chart[18] despite not being released as singles in the UK—on the strength of import sales of the German single releases.[19] At that time, "That's Entertainment" was the best-selling import-only single to date in the UK charts.[19]
"Before the Jam split up, I just felt it was time for me to move on, just artistically and creatively. I needed to find something different and different kind of avenues to make music, and a different way of making music."
Having already told Buckler and Foxton that he was leaving the band,[21] in October 1982 Weller announced that the Jam would disband at the end of that year.[22] Although Weller was determined to end the band and move on, the action came as a surprise to Foxton and Buckler[23] who both felt that the band had scope to develop further professionally.[21] Their final single, "Beat Surrender", became their fourth UK chart topper, going to No. 1 in its first week.[24] Their farewell concerts atWembley Arena were multiple sell-outs; their final concert took place at theBrighton Centre on 11 December 1982.[25]
In 1983, Weller purchasedPolyGram's London recording studio where The Jam had previously recorded, and renamed it Solid Bond Studios.[26][27] The same year, he teamed up with keyboardistMick Talbot to form a new group calledthe Style Council.[28] Initially a core duo, augmented by various guest musicians and singers, over time the core grew to also include drummerSteve White and singerDee C. Lee.[29] Previously a backing vocalist withWham!,[30] Lee eventually became Weller's girlfriend and then wife.
Free of the limited musical styles he felt imposed by the Jam, under the collective of the Style Council, Weller was able to experiment with a wide range of music, includingjazz,blue-eyed soul, andhouse; he also brought in musicians and vocalists to produce a different sound on each track.[29] The Style Council also used synthesizers and drum machines to create their musical style, which would later be labelled assophisti-pop.[31]
Many of the Style Council's early singles performed well in the UK charts,[32] and Weller would also experience his first success in North America, when "My Ever Changing Moods" and "You're the Best Thing" entered the USBillboard Hot 100.[33]
Weller appeared on 1984'sBand Aid record "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Style Council appeared in the British half ofLive Aid atWembley Stadium in 1985.[34]
In December 1984, Weller formed his own charity ensemble called the Council Collective to make a record, "Soul Deep", to raise money forstriking miners, and the family ofDavid Wilkie, a Welsh taxi driver who was killed during said strike. The record featured the Style Council and a number of other performers, includingJimmy Ruffin andJunior Giscombe,[35] and peaked at No. 24 on the UK singles chart.[36]
As the 1980s wore on, the Style Council's popularity in the UK began to decline, with the band achieving only one top ten single after 1985.[32] The Style Council's death knell was sounded in 1989 when its record company refused to release its fifth and final studio album, the house-influencedModernism: A New Decade.[37] With the rejection of this effort, Weller announced that the Style Council had split.[37] It was not until the 1998 retrospective CD box setThe Complete Adventures of the Style Council that the album would be widely available.[38]
By the end of 1989, Weller found himself without a band and without arecording contract for the first time since he was 17.[39] After taking time off for most of 1990, he returned to the road late in the year, touring as "The Paul Weller Movement" with long-term drummer and friend Steve White and Paul Francis (session bassist from theJames Taylor Quartet).[39] After a slow start playing small clubs with a mixture of Jam and Style Council classics, as well as showcasing new material, he released his debut solo single, "Into Tomorrow", which peaked at No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1991.[40][41] His next single, "Uh Huh Oh Yeh", reached No. 18 in the UK Chart in August 1992, followed by his debut solo studio album,Paul Weller, peaking at No. 8 on the UK Chart in September that year.[41]
Buoyed by the positive commercial and critical success of his debut solo studio album, Weller returned to the studio in 1993 with a renewed confidence,[39] recording most of the tracks on his next album in one take.[40] Accompanied by Steve White, guitaristSteve Cradock and bassist Marco Nelson, the result of these sessions was theMercury Music Prize-nominatedWild Wood, which included the singles "Sunflower" and "Wild Wood".[42] Weller's first solo live album,Live Wood, was released in 1994, peaking at No. 13 in the UK Albums Chart.[41]
Weller's third solo studio albumStanley Road (1995) took him back to the top of the British charts for the first time in a decade,[41] and went on to become the best-selling album of his career.[43] The album, named after the street in Woking where he had grown up, marked a return to the more guitar-based style of his earlier days.[39] The album's major single, "The Changingman", was also a big hit, taking Weller to No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart. Another single, the ballad "You Do Something to Me", was his second consecutive Top 10 single and reached No. 9 in the UK.[41]
Weller found himself heavily associated with the emergingBritpop movement.[44]Noel Gallagher ofOasis is credited as guest guitarist[45] on theStanley Road album track "I Walk on Gilded Splinters". Weller also returned the favour, appearing as a guest guitarist on Oasis' hit song "Champagne Supernova" from their second studio album(What's the Story) Morning Glory?.[46]
Heavy Soul, the follow-up to the million-sellingStanley Road, was a 'rootsy', 'stripped-down' change in Weller's musical style, compared to its predecessor.[44] The first single "Peacock Suit" reached No. 5 in theUK Singles Chart, in 1996 and the album reached No. 2 in 1997.[41] Success in the UK charts also came from compilations: "Best Of" albums by the Jam and the Style Council charted,[18][32] and in 1998 his own solo collection,Modern Classics, peaked at No. 7.[41]
In 2000 he released his fifth solo studio album,Heliocentric, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart.[41] On his worldwideDays of Speed acoustic tour, Weller performed songs from the back catalogue of his solo career and from his Jam and Style Council days, giving rise to a second successful live album of the same name;[47] containing live solo acoustic recordings from the European leg of the tour, the album reached No. 3 in the UK Albums Chart in October 2001.[41][48][49]
Weller released the No. 1 hit albumIllumination in September 2002. Co-produced byNoonday Underground's Simon Dine, it was preceded by top 10 hit single "It's Written in the Stars".[41][50] Weller also appears on Noonday Underground's second studio album calledSurface Noise (2002), singing on the track "I'll Walk Right On".[51]
In 2002, Weller collaborated withTerry Callier on the single "Brother to Brother", which featured on Callier's ninth studio albumSpeak Your Peace.[52] That same year, he teamed up withelectronic rock duoDeath in Vegas on a cover ofGene Clark's "So You Say You Lost Your Baby", which featured on their third studio albumScorpio Rising.[53]
Weller's album of covers entitledStudio 150, debuted at No. 2 in the UK charts in 2004, and includedBob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" as well as covers of songs byGil Scott-Heron andRose Royce, amongst others.[41][54]
Weller's eighth solo studio albumAs Is Now (2005) featured the singles "From the Floorboards Up", "Come On/Let's Go" and "Here's the Good News". The album was well-received, reaching No. 4 in the UK charts, though critics noted that he was not moving his music forward stylistically.[41][55]
At theBrit Awards on 14 February 2006 atEarl's Court in London, he was the latest recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.[56][57] Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including the Jam's classic "Town Called Malice".[58] Double live albumCatch-Flame! was released in June that year, featuring songs from his solo work and his career with the Jam and the Style Council.[59] Compilation albumHit Parade, released in late 2006, collected singles from the Jam, the Style Council and Weller's solo career.[60] Weller was offered appointment as a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire in the 2006 birthday honours, but rejected the offer.[61]
In 2007, Weller was a guest vocalist on the song "John Barleycorn" by the folk music projectthe Imagined Village, withMartin Carthy andEliza Carthy also being credited as main artists. It was released on the band's eponymous debut studio album.[62]
The double studio album22 Dreams was released on 2 June 2008, with "Echoes Round the Sun" as the lead single. Weller had parted company with his existing band before the recording this album, replacing everyone except guitaristSteve Cradock with Andy Lewis on bass, Andy Crofts ofthe Moons on keyboards andSteve Pilgrim of the Stands on drums. This album saw Weller move in a more experimental direction, taking in a wide variety of influences including jazz, folk and tango as well as the pop-soul more associated with hisStyle Council days. Weller also featured on two songs from the Moons' debut studio albumLife on Earth (2010), playing piano on "Wondering" and lead guitar on "Last Night on Earth".[63]
Weller was the surprise recipient of the2009 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist, which resulted in controversy when it was discovered that a suspiciously high number of bets had been placed for Weller to win the award, for whichJames Morrison wasT4's favourite. It was reported that the bookmakers had lost £100,000 in the event, and that as a result would not be taking bets for the awards in the future.[64]
In 2009, Weller guested onDot Allison's fourth studio album,Room 7½ (2009), co-writing "Love's Got Me Crazy".[65] November and December also saw him on tour, playing shows across the country.[66]
On 24 February 2010, Weller received the Godlike Genius Award at theNME Awards.[67] His tenth studio album,Wake Up the Nation, was released in April to critical acclaim, and was subsequently nominated for theMercury Music Prize.[68] The album also marked his first collaboration with Jam bassistBruce Foxton in 28 years.[69] In May 2010, Weller was presented with theIvor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, saying "I've enjoyed the last 33 years I've been writing songs and hopefully, with God's good grace, I'll do some more."[70]
On 19 March 2012 Weller released his eleventh studio albumSonik Kicks. The album entered theUK Albums Chart at number 1.[71] On 17 December 2012 Weller released theDragonfly EP, a limited edition vinyl run of 3000 copies.[72] Weller provided vocals onthe Moons' 2012 single "Something Soon". In December 2012, Weller headlined theCrisis charity gig at theHammersmith Apollo, where he performed withEmeli Sandé,Miles Kane andBradley Wiggins. On 23 March 2013, Weller played drums on stage withDamon Albarn,Noel Gallagher andGraham Coxon, playing theBlur track "Tender". This was played as part of theTeenage Cancer Trust concerts curated by Noel Gallagher.[73]
In 2014, Weller wrote "Let Me In" withOlly Murs for Murs's fourth studio albumNever Been Better.[74]
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In 2015, Weller made a West Coast tour of the US to promote hisSaturns Pattern studio album. The tour ran from 9 June to 9 October.[75][76] In January 2017 he made acameo appearance in "The Final Problem", the final episode of series four of the BBC TV seriesSherlock.[77] On 8 March 2019, audio and video versions ofOther Aspects, Live at the Royal Festival Hall was released. It is the second of two shows and was recorded in October 2018 at London'sRoyal Festival Hall with an orchestra.[78]
Weller's fifteenth solo studio album,On Sunset, was released 3 July 2020 and debuted atop the UK Albums Chart, giving Weller UK number-one albums spanning five consecutive decades. He joins the Beatles'John Lennon andPaul McCartney in having the distinction. His number-one albums:The Gift, as part of the Jam (1982).Our Favourite Shop, as part of the Style Council (1985), and solo studio albumsStanley Road (1995),Illumination (2002),22 Dreams (2008),Sonik Kicks (2012), andOn Sunset (2020). Weller's sixteenth solo studio album,Fat Pop (Volume 1), was released to critical acclaim on 14 May 2021, and entered the charts at number 1. On 15 May 2021, Weller recorded live symphonic renditions of songs from his catalogue at theBarbican Centre in London withJules Buckley and theBBC Symphony Orchestra. A live album of the recording session,An Orchestrated Songbook, was released in December 2021.
On 28 October 2022, Weller released aB-sides and rarities albumWill of the People. He collaborated on the songs withRichard Fearless,Young Fathers, Straightface and Stone Foundation.[79]
In early 2024, Weller announced that his next studio album,66, would be released in May, the day before his 66th birthday.[80][81][82] Recording took three years in Weller's Surrey studio, Black Barn. The album includes collaborations with Dr. Robert ofthe Blow Monkeys,Richard Hawley,Erland Cooper,Max Beesley,Suggs ofMadness,Noel Gallagher ofOasis andNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, andBobby Gillespie ofPrimal Scream, with string arrangements byHannah Peel.[83] The album's first single, "Soul Wandering", was released on 23 February 2024.[84][85]
He made his feature film debut inSteve McQueen's historical war dramaBlitz, released in 2024.[86]
On 25 July 2025, he releasedFind El Dorado, a covers album featuring contributions fromNoel Gallagher,Robert Plant,Hannah Peel,Declan O'Rourke,Seckou Keita, and Amelia Coburn.[87]
Weller's formative influences that have remained relatively constant includethe Beatles,[88]the Who, theSmall Faces andthe Kinks, as well as the mid-late 1960s soul and R&B records released byTamla Motown andStax.[89]
During the Jam years, Weller was influenced by early punk bands, including theSex Pistols andthe Clash,[90] and later post-punk acts such asGang of Four andJoy Division.[43] During the final part of the Jam's career, he introduced more contemporary soul and funk into the band's music, withSpandau Ballet's "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)" andPigbag's "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" inspiring Jam tracks, including "Absolute Beginners" and "Precious".[91] Weller's inspiration also came from 1970s soul and funk artists—most notablyCurtis Mayfield.[91]
Weller has worked various literary influences into his work, such asGeorge Orwell's work together with a short story written by Weller's friend Dave Waller, providing inspiration for the Jam's fourth studio albumSetting Sons (1979).[92] Weller has also citedGeoffrey Ashe'sCamelot and the Vision of Albion (1971), Orwell andPercy Bysshe Shelley as sources of inspiration for the Jam's fifth studio albumSound Affects (1980).[92]
Jazz influenced Weller's work during the early Style Council years, and he has citedJohn Coltrane as one of his favourites, saying "I love all of his stuff fromA Love Supreme onwards."[93] His tastes became increasingly eclectic during his Style Council period, with releases influenced by music as diverse asClaude Debussy,Philadelphia soul andErik Satie,[43] culminating in the band's Americanhouse music-inspired albumModernism: A New Decade.[37]
During the 1990s, Weller's work began being influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s artists such asNeil Young,Nick Drake, andTraffic.[43][94][95] He has also embraced the influence ofDavid Bowie, despite having once said that all but three of his records were "pish".[96]
Despite tellingMojo magazine in 2000 that he did not "make music with fuzzy radios or electric spoons",[97] since then, he has incorporated experimental influences into his music, citingPierre Schaeffer andKarlheinz Stockhausen as major influences forOn Sunset's experimental tracks.[98] Additionally,Mojo has notedNeu!'s influence onSonik Kicks' "Green" and "Around the Lake".[99]
Among the many albums that Weller has cited as all-time favourites areOdessey and Oracle (1968),Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967),What's Going On (1971) ,Innervisions (1973),Low (1977),Journey in Satchidananda (1971),The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968), theSmall Faces eponymous 1967 album,Traffic's eponymous 1968 album,McCartney (1970),Down by the Jetty (1975), andMy Generation (1965).[100] Other songs he has nominated as favourites include the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", the Small Faces' "Tin Soldier",James Brown's "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine",Declan O'Rourke's "Galileo (Someone Like You)", the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" and "Days", andPharrell Williams' "Happy".[101]
In 2012, Weller invaded a live radio interview with singer-songwriterGilbert O'Sullivan to praise his songs "Alone Again (Naturally)" and "Nothing Rhymed" as "two of my favourite songs, great lyrics, great tunes".[102][103]
Weller's favourite film isStanley Kubrick'sA Clockwork Orange (1971).[104]
Between the summer of 1977 and around August 1985, Weller was in a relationship with Gill Price, a fashion designer fromBromley.[105] She, and Weller’s relationship with her, inspired several Jam songs, including "I Need You (For Someone)", "Aunties & Uncles", "English Rose", "Fly", and "Happy Together".[106] She worked in the Jam's offices, contributed to Weller's fanzines,[106] and frequently toured with them—she can be seen in various behind-the-scenes photos.[107] She appeared on the sleeve of the final Jam single, "Beat Surrender",[108] and along with Weller's sister Nicky, she also had a cameo in the music video for the Style Council's "My Ever Changing Moods".
At the height of the Style Council's success, Weller andDee C. Lee, the Style Council's backing vocalist, began a romantic relationship.[39] The couple married in 1987 and divorced in 1998. They have a son and a daughter.
Weller has another daughter with make-up artist Lucy Halperin.[109]
Weller became involved with Samantha Stock whilst he was recording at the Manor studio; they had two children together.[110]
In October 2008, Stock and Weller broke up and Weller moved in with Hannah Andrews, a backing vocalist on his22 Dreams studio album, who has also toured with his band. They first met inNew York in 2005 and married in September 2010 on the Italian island ofCapri.[111] The couple have twin boys who were born in 2012,[112] and a daughter, born in 2017.[113]
In April 2014, Weller won £10,000 in damages fromAssociated Newspapers after "plainly voyeuristic" photographs of his family out shopping were published onMailOnline.[114]
On 24 April 2009, John Weller, his father and long-time manager since the days of the Jam, died frompneumonia at the age of 77.[115] His mother Ann Weller died on 15 July 2025.[116]
Weller has been sober since 2010.[117]
Weller has a long association with British politics. In the Jam's firstNME interview in May 1977, he famously announced that the band would vote for theConservative Party at the next election, something he has long since stated was a joke.[118]
From late 1980, he became increasingly interested inCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), often being pictured wearing a CND badge (as in the music video for "Town Called Malice") and playing rallies with both the Jam and the Style Council.[119] In tandem, he became more vocallysocialist in interviews, and between around 1982 and 1987, his songwriting also became increasingly politicised, most notably on "Trans-Global Express",[120] "Money-Go-Round", "The Big Boss Groove", "Soul Deep" and the majority ofOur Favourite Shop.[121]
In late 1984, Weller took part inBand Aid and then put together his own benefit record for theUK miners' strike, which was called "Soul Deep" and credited to the Council Collective. The 12" of the single featured interviews with striking miners, although half of the money raised went to the widow ofDavid Wilkie, a taxi driver who was killed whilst driving strike-breaking miners to their shift.[122] During the 1980s, Weller was alsovegetarian and concerned withanimal rights. As a result, he wrote the song "Bloodsports", which was included on the B-side of the Style Council's 1985 single, "Walls Come Tumbling Down!". Royalties from the track were donated to a defence fund for two hunt saboteurs then on remand inHM Prison Bristol.[123]
From the latter half of 1985, Weller was highly involved in the formation ofRed Wedge, aleft-wing collective of musicians and actors etc. who aimed to "bring left-wing ideas to other people".[124] From around 1988 onwards, he became less politically vocal, ultimately stating during the 1990s that he no longer particularly believed in any politics.[125]
In 2008, after then-Conservative leader and formerEton pupilDavid Cameron chose the Jam's "The Eton Rifles" as one of hisDesert Island Discs, Weller expressed disgust, saying, "It wasn't intended as a fucking jolly drinking song for thecadet corps."[126] When asked about it again in 2015, he toldMojo magazine: "The whole thing with Cameron saying it was one of his favourite songs ... I just think, 'Which bit didn't you get?"[127] Weller also began playing the song live again for the first time since 1982.[128]
In a 2008 interview, Weller said he had declined aCBE because of his dislike of theroyal family,the Establishment and theCivil Service.[129]
During the mid-2010s, Weller made a brief return to the political arena, being vocally supportive of then-Labour Party leaderJeremy Corbyn and playing a 'Concert for Corbyn' in December 2016.[130]
In aGuardian interview in the run-up to the2024 general election, Weller commented on the British political landscape: "You can either vote forRishi Sunak's Tory party, or you can vote forKeir Starmer's Tory party." Weller also labelled Sunak, Starmer andNigel Farage "[m]ugs" and criticised the actions ofIsrael in the same interview, stating: "Am I against genocides and ethnic cleansing? Yes, I am, funnily enough, I can't understand why more people aren't up in arms about what's going on. We should be ashamed of ourselves, I think. One minute you're supplying bullets and bombs and guns, and then you're sending over food. How does that work?"[131] Weller performed at a fundraising concert for Gaza later in the year.[132]
In 2025, Weller signed an open letter in support of the hip-hop trioKneecap which opposed a "clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform" the group.[133]
In 2007, theBBC described Weller as "one of the most revered music writers and performers of the past 30 years".[134] In 2015, Pete Naughton ofThe Daily Telegraph wrote, "Apart fromDavid Bowie, it's hard to think of any British solo artist who's had as varied, long-lasting and determinedly forward-looking a career."[135]
In 2012, he was among theBritish notables selected by the artistPeter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British social figures of his life.[136]
Studio albums
It's common knowledge these days that the current mod mania grew from a hardcore of The Jam's keenest fans who... discovered a shared enthusiasm for all things mid-'60s.
